Visions of the future – from the past

Thoughts are fleeting as time is. Once they are gone – they are gone forever. What great vision of the future this Russian man might have had in 1890 is lost in time. Yet his image was frozen and made its way forward in time to resurface again today.

Source: Photography by William Carrick (Scottish, 1827 – 1878),  [Man wearing dark robes and a pectoral cross], about 1860–1870, Albumen silver print. Provided by The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles